The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-11-16
HOME AND FARM.

Never rub stuns place. Push
sting out with the finger nail. When
you pull it out. you drive the poison
into the wound.
-Doughnuts: Oae cup sugar, one
heaping tablespoonful butter, one eggg'
one cup sweet milk, half nutmeg
two teaspoonfuls baking powder, one
quart flour. Boston Budget
Ginger Cake: One cup OF mo-
lasses, one and one-half cups OF not
water, one-half cup of butter or lard
one tablespoonful of ginger, one tea
spoonful of soda, and flour for rath-
CT thick batter. Household
A pretty bed for chiid's room is
one with white bedstead, with spread
of butter-cup yellow silesia covered
with white lace. The cover Is not to
be tucked in, but is to be edged with
lace, and to hang nearly to the floor.
"A cherry tree of the white oxheart
variety on the premises of John Ca:
para Of Oroville, CAL, bore this season
2. 300 pounds of fruit. 1t Is eighteen
years old, is sixty feet high and is six
feet in circumference ST Louis Re-
publican.
Delicate cake. One egg two Ia
+ blespoonfuls butter, one and one-half
cups sugar. three cups sifted flour, ono
cup sweet milk, two teaspoonfnis
cream tartar, one teaspoonful soda, or
two teaspoonfuls baking-pow'ler. Sea-
/ son TO taste. Good Cheer.
| After forty years experience my
plan in seeding down to grass for hay
/ is to SOW per acre q mixture contain
ing four quarts of large clover, two
quarts OF small clover one quart OF
alsike clover and six quarts of timothy.
The land should be in good heart and
well worked. -Farns and Home.
Angels Snow. Peel and cut one
dozen ripe apples in thin, small pieces.
Put layer in the bottom of large
glass dish, sprinkle with sugar and
then put layer OF grated cocoanut,
and apples again. until the dishi is full =.
putting the cocoanut on top. Set on
ice one h. ur and serve in glass saucers.
Toledo Blade.
The carcass of our sheep should
be made so valuable by its ability to
reproduce itself annually in value
market lamb, and sell when it's turn
comes to be TUNED into money fol
/ sum which would afford y profit
upon the cost. The fleece. rs n sec.
ondary consideration, should be made
as valuable us possible. 10 secure
these results the skill of breeders
should be brought to use to improve
all of our sheep up TO this standard. -
Indianapolis Sentinel.
Chocolate Creams. This recipe
and the one following are given in re-
spouse to an inquiry from subscriber
They are both excellent. One quart o.
pulverized sugar and onc-half pin
boiling water. Boil ten minutes with
out stirring, then set the basin into
cold wafer and stir briskly until cold
Make into small balls and put on :
buttcred plate or waxed paper to
harden. Melt one-half pound of ba
kers chocolate over n boiling teaket
tie, and roll the balls in it with fork
Boston Budget.
The disease of the peach tire
known as the yellows, was one of tn
subjects of discussion at the recen
meeting of tale American Pomologica
Society, in Boston. Two views wer
expressed as to the cause of this de
s,ructive disease. One was that i
was form of contagion, which ma
be * terminated by destroying all in
fected trees. The other theory at
tributed the yellows to the poverty Q
the soil. due to its exhaustion by re
peated crops without the application
of fertilizing materials; and those VIII
explain the malady in this way believ
that it can be prevented by the use o
potash and phosphates on peacI
orchards. ~ Y LedJer.